Tag: Quentin Tarantino
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David Ayer Says His Remake Of The Dirty Dozen Is Still A Moving Target
Robert Aldrich’s “The Dirty Dozen” is the daddiest of dad movies. A box office smash upon its theatrical release in 1967, it was the proto-“men-on-a-mission” movie. Lee Marvin stars as a World War II U.S. Army major ordered to lead a pack of disposable military prisoners on a suicide mission to slaughter numerous high-ranking Nazi…
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Eli Roth’s ‘Thanksgiving’: Everything We Know About the Holiday Slasher
Since 2007, when he created a mock trailer for the movie Grindhouse, Eli Roth has been waiting for the right opportunity to create a feature-length movie based on the fake trailer. The original trailer is filled to the brim with terrible puns, extremely cheesy kill scenes and body reveals in true Eli Roth fashion. Roth…
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Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving Release Date, Cast, Plot, Trailer, And More Info
Every major holiday could stand to have a slasher movie themed around it, especially one with a sunny disposition masquerading the grim truth behind it like Thanksgiving. Such was Eli Roth’s thinking when he made his fake “Thanksgiving” movie trailer for Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s “Grindhouse” experiment back in 2007. Roth’s original short is…
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‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ Was Banned in Ireland Because of Real-Life Tragedies
Quentin Tarantino has been the most prominent cheerleader for cinematic violence, and he is no stranger to criticism when it comes to his graphic depictions of such. Even in films where he isn’t sitting in the director’s chair, Tarantino manages to catch controversy. He was merely an actor and screenwriter behind Robert Rodriguez’ From Dusk…
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What Happened to Tarantino’s ‘Pulp Fiction’ & ‘Reservoir Dogs’ Prequel?
Director Quentin Tarantino has long stated that he will make ten movies in his career. Because he counts the two Kill Bill installments as a single film, he currently has one picture left. That being noted, there have been several moments throughout the indie-wood director’s journey where prospective projects have come into focus but were…
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How Quentin Tarantino Inspired Edgar Wright’s ‘Last Night in Soho’
Quentin Tarantino made an enormous splash with his first two screenplays True Romance and Natural Born Killers which were directed by Tony Scott and Oliver Stone respectively. From there, Tarantino was able to direct his own scripts such as Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. Since the release of his ninth film, the critically acclaimed Once…
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The Cannes Film Festival Has a Yearly Award for Dogs
The Cannes Film Festival is one of the most prestigious annual film festivals in the world, making it no surprise that it attracts huge names like Quentin Tarantino and Jane Fonda as well as up-and-coming filmmakers hoping to have their work explode onto the scene. Having been founded back in 1946, this film festival has…
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Quentin Tarantino’s Favorite Movie of 2019 Was This Creature Feature
There’s a true argument to be made that Quentin Tarantino’s best movie is his 2019 hangout comedy, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, but when asked about his personal favorite movie of that year, Tarantino’s answer humbly differed from his own masterpiece. Instead, his tastes leaned towards Crawl, that year’s hit alligator-centric horror thrill ride.…
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‘Taxi Driver’s Complicated Link to a Presidential Assassination Attempt
Since its release in 1976, Taxi Driver has remained bold in its unflinching exploration of some of the more depraved corners of society and psychology. With an iconic performance by Robert De Niro, unsettling yet truthful writing by Paul Schraeder, and fearless directing by Martin Scorsese, few films hold a candle to what Quentin Tarantino…